DrGillian Tan

Senior Lecturer in Anthropology

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 522 78645 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

In the years of being an active teaching and research academic at Deakin University, I have made significant contributions both to the anthropology discipline and to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. I was anthropology discipline convenor from June to December 2016 and then from 2018 to 2020. I have taught six out of ten subjects offered in the anthropology major at Deakin University, including creating and writing one of these subjects, Being Human (With the Nonhuman). I also and created and wrote another subject, Tibetan Buddhism, in the Religious Studies major.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ASS203 Being Human (with the Nonhuman)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ASS329 Crime and Violence
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ASS102 Culture and Communication
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ASS233 Myth and Ritual
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ASS330 Cyborg Anthropology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Tibetans' Perception and Action Toward Water In Eastern Tibet
    Quebailamo QUEBAILAMO - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Revitalising Hydraulic Civilisation: Crisis and state power in post-conflict Sri Lanka
    Samson Keam - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Muslim Community Organisations' Understanding of and Responses to Islamophobia
    Sara Cheikh Husain - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Videogames for a New Anthropological Image
    Benjamin Evans - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    "The Imperative-to-conserve": Human-plant Relations Among Researchers of the Wollemi Pine
    Adam Robert Young - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2024